NORMA RAE (vhs) *NEW* Oscar for Sally Field and similar items

Brand new factory sealed vhs tape is a full screen version which is perfect for old tube TVs as the image will fill your square screen. The sound track is more robust than its digital counterpart. No pesky menus to navigate either for this pop-n-go video. As NORMA RAE, a small-town Southern mill worker, a widow with one legitimate child and another born out of wedlock, a resilient woman of no great education but a lot of common sense, Miss Field gives a performance that is as firm and funny as the set of her glass jaw. Norma Rae is about the effforts of one young New Yorker, a glib, fast-talking Jewish organizer named Reuben Marshasky (Ron Leibman) to bring justice to the tiny town where Norma Rae, her father, her mother, her husband-to-be Sonny (Beau Bridges), and virtually everyone else are dependent upon the cotton mill, the town's only industry. The film's principal appeal, though, is not the manner in which this uphill struggle is fought and won, but in the way Mr. Ritt, his writers (Mr. Mrs. Ravetch), and his cast reveal the natural resources of the characters--their gift, their emotional reserves, and their complex feelings for one another. The politics of the film are worthy but they are never as surprising as the people, especially Norma Rae, whose personality is defined in her often comic, sometimes brutal, sometimes touching encounters with ex-husbands, lovers, children, parents, strangers.